Character
Sal
Sal in Futurama (1999), played by John DiMaggio.
Sal works the loading dock at Planet Express, a gruff, barrel-chested dockhand with a thick accent and zero patience for nonsense. He barks orders, hefts crates, and treats every delivery like a personal insult. He's background muscle in the world of the show — reliably cranky, rarely explained, always working.
John DiMaggio, already doing double duty as Bender, gives Sal a completely different register: a wheezy, blue-collar bark that turns a one-scene dockworker into a tiny comic event every time he opens his mouth. The joke is efficiency itself — no backstory needed, just a voice that sounds exhausted by the universe.
Sal is a sleazy and overweight man who always has a cigarette in his mouth and smokes. He is seen in many different jobs, usually dull occupations which he performs badly due to extreme laziness. He pluralizes words randomly and singularizes words that should be plural. He's often seen with Hoschel.
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Futurama1999